Media Log: Cumulative Index

Cumulative Index

The Media Log contains brief descriptions of the many NEH-supported radio, television and film productions, including such acclaimed documentaries as The Civil War, The Great Depression, and FDR, literary biographies on James Baldwin, Edgar Allen Poe, and thirteen American Poets (Voices and Visions), as well as such family programming as Time Warp Trio and Booker.

Through 2022, the Endowment has supported 1,312 film, television, radio, and podcast programs.

Each program listing includes information about content, production credits, format, length, ancillary materials, and awards. The name of the current distribution agent, as well as contact information, are also provided.

Questions about NEH-supported media programs can be addressed to the NEH Division of Public Programs at @email.

• 1913: Seeds of Conflict
• 9to5: The Story of a Movement
• The Adams Chronicles
• ....And the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
• ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
• A Country Auction
• A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
• A Midwife's Tale
• A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America
• A Story, A Story: Traditions in Storytelling for Children
• A Weave of Time
• A World on Display: The St. Louis World's Fair of 1904
• A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs And Freedom
• Abode of Illusion
• Across the Pacific
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
• Africans in America
• Afropop Worldwide
• Alexander Hamilton
• Alfred Stieglitz—The Eloquent Eye
• All under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village
• America and Lewis Hine
• America Lost and Found
• American Cinema
• The American Diplomat
• American Dream
• American Experience: The Abolitionists
• American Experience: Chasing the Moon
• American Experience: Death and the Civil War
• American Experience: Freedom Summer
• American Icons: Moby-Dick
• American Icons on Studio 360
• American Masters: This Is Bob Hope...
• The American Novel
• American Oz
• American Popular Song Series on Fresh Air
• American Roots Music
• American Routes: Giants of Jazz: Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane
• American Routes Humanities Features: Songs and Stories from Down Home to Uptown
• American Routes: Routes to a Creative Future-Cultural Sustainability and the Usable Past
• American Routes: Routes to Genius
• American Routes: Routes to Recovery
• The American Short Story
• American Tongues
• Anarchism in America
• Ancestors in the Americas
• Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency
• Annie Oakley
• Apache Mountain Spirits
• The Arab World's Demographic Dilemma Series: Young, Unemployed and Searching for a Voice
• Arguing the World
• The Artist Was a Woman
• Artists at Work: A Film on the New Deal Art Projects
• Ashpet: An American Cinderella
• Asian Americans
• August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
• BackStory with the American History Guys
• The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
• Baseball
• Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot and Krapp's Last Tape
• The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays
• Becoming Helen Keller    
• Beethoven In Beijing
• Benjamin Franklin
• Benjamin Latrobe: America's First Architect
• Besa: The Promise
• The Best of Families
• Bill of Rights Radio Project
• Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
• Biquefarre
• Bond of Iron
• Booker
• Born Again: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church
• Born To Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Boswell for the Defence
• Boswell in London
• Breaking the Maya Code
• Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race
• Broadway: The American Musical
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
• Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
• The Buddha
• Buffalo Social History Project
• Building Big
• The Burning Wall: Dissent and Opposition Behind the Berlin Wall
• The Cafeteria
• The Case of the Legless Veteran
• Castle
• Cathedral
• Centennial Faulkner
• China in Revolution, 1911-1949
• China's Cosmopolitan Age: The Tang
• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• Cities for People
• Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bomb Maker
• The Civil War
• Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama and Classic Theatre Previews
• College Behind Bars
• Colliding Dreams
• The Color of Honor
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery
• Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indians
• Coney Island
• Constitution USA with Peter Sagal
• Constitutional Journal
• Containment
• Contrary Warriors: A Story of the Crow Tribe
• Corpus Duende: Echoes of the Spanish Civil War
• Craven Street
• Creeley
• Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War
• The Crucible of the Millennium
• D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
• Darrow
• Dateline 1787
• Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South
• De Gaulle and France
• Dead Souls
• The Dean of Thin Air
• Death and the Civil War
• Decoding Watson
• Degenerate Art
• Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See
• Divided Highways: The Interstates And The Transformation Of American Life
• Do You Speak American?
• Don Quixote de la Mancha
• The Donner Party
• Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
• Driving While Black
• Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
• The Dust Bowl
• Dying
• EAMES: The Architect and the Painter
• Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
• Edgar Allan Poe, Terror of the Soul
• The Edith Wharton Series
• Eisenhower
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• The Electric Valley
• Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
• Empire of the Air
• Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea
• Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film
• Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts
• Eugene O'Neill: Journey Into Genius
• The Eugene O'Neill Radio Project
• The Eugene Crusade
• Expressions: Black American Folk Art and Culture
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreams
• Faces, Mirrors, Masks: Twentieth-Century Latin American Fiction
• FDR
• Fear and the Muse: The Story of Anna Akhmatova
• The Fig Tree
• The Fight
• The Fight in the Fields: César Chávez and the Farm Workers' Struggle
• First Angry Man
• Fit: Episodes In the History of the Body
• Forgotten Genius
• The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans
• Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History
• Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America
• Free to Dance: The Black Tradition in American Modern Dance
• Free to Rock
• Freedom On My Mind
• Freedom Riders
• Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
• The Gate of Heavenly Peace
• Geographies of Kinship
• George Marshall and the American Century
• George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
• Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
• Gertrude Bell: Letters from Baghdad
• GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II
• The Global Assembly Line
• The Glory and the Power: Fundamentalisms Observed
• Go Tell It on the Mountain
• Goin' to Chicago
• The Gold Rush
• The Golden Cradle: Immigrant Women in the United States
• The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War
• The Great Depression
• The Great Famine
• The Great War
• The Greeks
• H.R. 6161: An Act of Congress
• Harbor from the Holocaust
• Hard Choices
• Hard Times
• Harry Hopkins: At FDR's Side
• Have You Heard From Johannesburg
• Heartland
• Heart of All Oral History Project
• Hearts and Hands
• Henry Ford
• Henry Luce: A Vision of Empire
• Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
• Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise
• Hidden Kitchens World Series Radio
• High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
• Historian As Detective
• History of Now
• The Hollow Boy
• Homes Apart: Korea
• The Homefront
• House Divided
• The Human Language
• Huey Long
• I Came to Testify
• I'll Make Me A World: A Century of African American Arts
• India Speaks
• Indian America: A Gift From the Past
• Inheritance
• Into the Amazon
• Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World
• Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
• Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
• Isenheim
• Ishi, the Last Yahi
• Itzhak
• The Italian Americans
• James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
• James McNeill Whistler & The Case for Beauty
• Jazz
• The Jazz Loft
• The Jewish Americans
• John and Abigail Adams
• John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature
• John Muir in the New World
• Joseph Brodsky: A Maddening Space
• Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People U.S. History
• Kaddish
• Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
• Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
• Keeping On
• The Keepers/Season 2
• The Killing Floor
• King of America
• Korea: The Never-Ending War
• Korea: The Unfinished War
• LaGuardia, the Dreamer and the Doer
• Language Matters with Bob Holman
• Last Stand at Little Bighorn
• Latino Americans
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page
• LBJ
• “LBJ and the Great Society” and “Nixon at War”
• Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
• Liberty! The American Revolution
• The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
• Lincoln and the War Within
• Lindbergh
• The Living Maya
• Lodz Ghetto
• Long Ago and Far Away
• Long Shadows
• Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
• Los Corridos
• Lost & Found Sound
• Lost Highways
• Lost Treasure Hunt
• Love and Other Sorrows
• The Loving Story
• MacArthur
• Madame Bovary
• Mae West: Dirty Blonde
• The Mahabharata
• Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City
• Manos a la Obra: The Story Of Operation Bootstrap
• The Mao Years, 1949-1976
• Marcel Proust: A Writer's Life
• Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
• Margaret Mead
• Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed
• Margaret Sanger
• Marion's Men: The Life and Times of The Swamp Fox
• Mark Twain: Beneath the Laughter
• The Mark Twain Series
• Mary Pickford
• Mary Silliman's War
• Messengers From Moscow
• Metropolitan Avenue: Community Women in a Changing Neighborhood
• Middletown
• Middletown Revisited
• Mill Times
• The Mine Wars
• Mission US
• Mississippi Triangle
• Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian-American Poets
• Molders of Troy
• Morning Sun
• The Most Dangerous Woman in America
• Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson
• Murder at Harvard
• Murder of a President
• Mutzmag
• My Palikari
• The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People
• The Mystery Play of Elche
• Nabokov on Kafka
• Napoleon
• Nat Turner A Troublesome Property
• Near Death
• New York: A Documentary Film
• Niagara Falls: The Changing Nature of a New World Symbol
• No Job For a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII
• The O/Aural Tradition: Beowulf
• Odyssey I
• Odyssey II
• The Odyssey of John Dos Passos
• O. Henry's Jimmy Valentine
• Old Traditions, New Sounds
• Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
• On Being with Krista Tippett
• One on Every Corner: Manhattan's Greek-Owned Coffee Shops
• One Woman, One Vote
• Orozco: Man of Fire
• The Ornament of the World
• The Orphan Trains
• The Other Side of Victory
• Out of Ireland
• Out Of Order
• Out of the Past
• Out of Time
• The Painter's World: Changing Constants of Art from the Renaissance to the Present
• Panama Canal
• Paradox on 72nd Street
• The Parching Winds of Somalia
• Partisans of Vilna
• Partners of the Heart
• Passage to India
• Past/Present 1906
• Pearl Harbor: Surprise and Remembrance
• Peephole Art: Beckett for Television
• The People's Plague: Tuberculosis in America
• The Performed Word
• The Persistence of Surrealism
• Picture Bride
• Pigeon Feathers
• The Pilgrims
• Poetry in America
• Poets in Person
• Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya
• Porgy and Bess: An American Voice
• Power to Heal
• The Prince
• Prince Among Slaves
• PRI's The World
• The Probable Passing of Elk Creek
• Prohibition
• The Pueblo Revolt
• Pulse of the Planet
• Pursuit Of Happiness
• Pyramid
• Rainbow's End: An Introduction to the Humanities for Deaf Children
• Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
• Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
• Rape of Europa
• Rebuilding the Temple: Cambodians in America
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
• Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton
• Remembering Jim Crow
• Remembering Slavery
• Reporting America at War
• The Restless Conscience
• Return from Silence: China's Revolutionary Writers
• The Revolt of Mother
• Richard J. Daley: The Last Boss
• Richard Wright: Black Boy
• The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
• Roanoak
• Robert E. Lee
• Roman City
• The Roman Empire in the First Century
• The Royal Archives of Ebla
• The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
• Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey
• Routes of Rhythm with Harry Belafonte
• Sammy Davis, Jr.
• Say Amen, Somebody
• The Scarlet Letter
• School: The Story of American Public Education
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
• Sea of Language
• Search and Seizure: The Supreme Court and the Police
• Search for a Century
• Seasons of a Navajo
• Seeing Red
• Seize the Day
• Sentimental Women Need Not Apply
• Shadows of the Nuclear Age: American Culture and the Bomb
• The Shakers
• The Shakespeare Hour
• Shakespeare in American Life
• Shakespeare Uncovered
• Shannon County
• Shoulder to Shoulder
• Simple Justice
• Slavery by Another Name
• Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
• So Far from India
• Soldier Jack
• Somewhere South
• Songs Jumping in My Mouth
• Sons of the Moon
• Sorceress
• SoundPlay/Horspiel
• Speaking of Faith: Biographical Series
• The State of the Language: So To Speak
• The Stations of Bach
• Staus: Growing Old in America
• Stories from the Spirit World: Legends of Native Americans
• The Storm that Swept Mexico
• StoryLines New England
• Strange Fruit
• Strangers and Kin
• Subtitle
• Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
• Survivors
• The Supreme Court's Holy Battles
• Talk to Me: Americans in Conversation
• Television's Vietnam: Impact of the Media/The Real Story
• Tell About the South
• Tell Me a Story
• Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
• Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
• The Circus
• There She Is: A History of Miss America
• This Far By Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys
• Thomas Hart Benton
• Three Sovereigns for Sarah
• Through Deaf Eyes
• Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
• The Time of the Lincolns
• Time Warp Trio
• To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
• To Render A Life
• To Tell the Truth
• The Trial of Standing Bear
• TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
• Tribal Justice
• Traitor in My House
• Tree of Iron
• Triumph at Carville
• Tupperware: Earl and Brownie's Plastic Empire
• The Two Lives of Asa Earl Carter
• The Two Worlds of Angelita (Los Dos Mundos De Angelita)
• The Vote
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Umm Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt
• Unfinished Journey: The Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Unladylike2020
• The U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848
• Vietnam: A Television History
• The Vietnam War
• Village of No River
• Visions of Social Order: For the Love of Work
• Voices and Visions
• Voices of Vietnam: Vietnam War Public Radio Series 
• Voulkos and Company
• Waiting for Beckett: A Portrait of Samuel Beckett
• Walt Disney
• Walt Whitman: Boisterous Voice of America
• Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
• The War
• War of 1812
• The War That Made America
• The Warrior
• Washington's Neighborhoods: A History of Change
• Water and the Dream of the Engineers
• Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
• We Shall Overcome
• The West
• We Were So Beloved: The German Jews of Washington Heights
• Westward to China
• When Worlds Collide
• Who Killed the Federal Theatre?
• Who Will Write Our History
• Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
• Willa Cather—The Road Is All
• Willa: An American Snow White
• William Kennedy's Albany
• Winnetou & Old Shatterhand
• The Wobblies
• The Women of Summer: The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers
• Woodrow Wilson
• Woody Guthrie: Aint Got No Home
• Word Stories
• The World in Words
• The World of Islam
• Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Writing Code
• Writing the Southwest
• The Yiddish Radio Project
• You May Call Her Madam Secretary
• Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart